Lollypop, a GNOME Music Player

Lollypop, a superb looking GNOME Music Player, in the works for well over a year, and it already looks and works amazing.

Features

• Artist bio, lyrics
  • Get artist biography from Wikipedia and Last.fm. Read lyrics from Wikia.
• Cover art downloader
  • Automatic artwork downloader from Last.fm, iTunes, Spotify.
• Intuitive browsing
  • Walk through your collection by genres, artists and albums artwork.
• MTP devices
  • Sync your music with Android phones and any mtp devices…
• Search
  • Search in your collection by artist, album and title. You can then play searched items, add them to the queue or to a playlist.
• Queue
  • The queue is a source designed to temporarily store the next tracks you want to play.
• Fullscreen view
  • Visual access from your couch
• Replay gain
  • Native replay gain support.
• Party mode
  • Let lollypop play music for you.

Installation

Lollypop support more then one Linux distro, it supports six. Here are the links to them: ArchLinux, Debian, Fedora, Opensuse, including FreeBSD.

To install Lollypop it's as easy as adding a PPA, refreshing your sources list, and install the lollypop packges:

PPA

Note: under Ubuntu 14.04 - Trusty Tahr -, at startup, Lollypop crashes. Here is the bug report to keep an eye on it: Issue #427

According to the Lollypop developer, Lollypop is not compatible with Ubuntu Trusty Tahr.

Not compatible with Ubuntu 14.04 (Do not handle an essential widget) - gnumdk (Cédric Bellegarde), Lollypop crashes under Ubuntu 14.04 · Issue #427 · gnumdk/lollypop

Compilation

Just in case you want the latest and greatest, here is how to compile Lollypop under Ubuntu:

The following dependencies need to be satisfied before you can compile Lollypop:

• gtk3
• gobject-introspection
• gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 (Debian)
• python3
• intltool (make)
• itstool (make)
• totem-plparser
• python (make)
• python-cairo
• python-dbus
• python-gobject
• python-sqlite
• python-pylast >= 1.0

Here are some of the packages for debian based distros: sudo apt-get install autoconf libglib2.0-dev intltool yelp-tools libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev

Developer from Lollypop advices to wait for next LTS.

Not compatible. Wait for next LTS - gnumdk (Cédric Bellegarde), Compile error: syntax error near unexpected token `disable-static · Issue #428 · gnumdk/lollypop

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